The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street
A Novel
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
28 July 2015
Summary
In 1913, little Malka Treynovsky flees Russia with her family. Bedazzled by tales of gold and movie stardom, she tricks them into buying tickets for America. Yet no sooner do they land on the squalid Lower East Side of Manhattan, than Malka is crippled and abandoned in the street.
Taken in by a tough-loving Italian ices peddler, she manages to survive through cunning and inventiveness. As she learns the secrets of his trade, she begins to shape her own destiny. She falls in love …Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780446696944 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0446696943 |
| Author: | Susan Jane Gilman |
| Publisher: | Grand Central Publishing |
| Imprint: | Grand Central Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 28 July 2015 |
| Weight: | 440g |
| Dimensions: | 136mm x 203mm x 39mm |
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Critics Review
[A] standout travel memoir…Gilman’s descriptions of their trials and tribulations crackle with wit. - Booklist
THE ICE CREAM QUEEN OF ORCHARD STREET is a wonderful read, by turns poignant and wickedly funny. This is the immigrant story updated, with a brazenly re-imagined American anti-hero, and delicious all along the way. - Kevin Baker, author of The Big Crowd and Paradise AlleyAbout The Author
Susan Jane Gilman
Susan Jane Gilman is the author of Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress and Kiss My Tiara. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan, and has written commentary for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and Ms. magazine, among others. Her fiction and essays have received several literary awards. Though she lives in Geneva, Switzerland, she remains, eternally, a child of New York.
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